Already grim residential building market prospects are expected to worsen in 2008 as high home inventories will cause housing starts to decline 25 percent from already depressed 2007 levels
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Osha Revises Cement Burn Guidance
A new OSHA document, “Preventing Skin Problems from Working with Portland Cement,” aims to educate employers and employees about effective ways to prevent skin-related injuries in the cement and concrete industries
Read MoreFeds Renew Silica Exposure Scrutiny
Revised guidance on skin protection against exposure to portland cement follows OSHA’s recently announced National Emphasis Program (NEP) to target worksites where employees are at risk for developing silicosis
Read MoreNlrb Unloads Longshoremen’s Claim To Cemex Barge Work
NLRB ruled late last month that Operating Engineers Local 3-represented Cemex Construction Materials L.P. employees are entitled to operate a bucket loader on an aggregate barge serving a San Francisco ready mixed plant, thus rejecting an International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10 jurisdictional claim
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